{"id":7658,"date":"2021-02-25T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7658"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:39:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:39:31","slug":"episode-262-the-year-1956-when-we-were-young-and-owned-the-world-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7658","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 262 THE YEAR 1956: WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND OWNED THE WORLD AROUND US"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 262     THE YEAR 1956 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND OWNED THE WORLD AROUND US<\/p>\n

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alan  skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2021<\/div>\n

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Ah!  Wonderful!  When we were young and  anxiously awaited the March Break to go camping<\/div>\n
on the banks of Etobicoke Creek\u2026a wasteland of mysteriously abandoned farms with empty barns<\/div>\n
and  brick farm houses .  Nobody around.  As if some mysterious disease had  wiped out all living<\/div>\n
things \u2026 a plague \u2026 a  pandemic.   And we arrived free of any contagion to document this empty <\/div>\n
land.<\/div>\n

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Russ Vanstone, Eric Skeoch and me.  Just three of us on this venture.  We got to the \u201cLand  Where <\/div>\n
Nobody  Lives Anymore\u201d  by hitchhiking and public  bus from West Toronto.   Packed for three or four<\/div>\n
days.  Sleeping bags, food, camera and bits  and pieces of winter clothing that we hoped would<\/div>\n
be unnecessary.<\/div>\n

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The dead horse had floated down near out campsite as if to confirm the mysterious plague\u2026pandemic\u2026imaginary<\/div>\n
interpretation as to why the land was empty.   Corpse still frozen.  No smell.   The only smells were those<\/div>\n
of the land getting ready for spring\u2026a damp, coming alive, kind of smell.   Lots of wood on the creek<\/div>\n
banks  for our campfire.  Great slabs of fossilized shale\u2026Ordovician, 500 million years old with tiny whitish<\/div>\n
things that once were alive.  Those slabs were beds for us.  Not sure if we had air mattresses. <\/div>\n
 I wonder if the future explorers on Mars  will have the same feeling we did.<\/div>\n
Endless adventure ahead.<\/div>\n

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YEAR 1956: THREE ADVENTURERS ON THE EMPTY LAND CALLED ETOBICOKE\u2026RIGHT TO LEFT\u2026RUSS VANSTONE,<\/div>\n
ERIC SKEOCH, ALAN SKEOCH<\/div>\n

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YEAR 2021: I  NEVER GO BACK TO ETOBICOKE, ESPECIALLY NOT TO ETOBICOKE CREEK.  THERE IS NO WILDERNESS<\/div>\n
LEFT.  THAT ENDED WHEN THE SOMMERVILLE BLACKSMITH SHOP WAS DEMOLISHED AND THE BULL DOZERS MOVED<\/div>\n
NORTH FROM DUNDAS TO BURNHAMTHORPE ROAD.   I NEVER GO BACK THERE.  I LIKE  TO KEEP MY IMAGINARY WORLD INTACT.<\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EPISODE 262     THE YEAR 1956 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND OWNED THE WORLD AROUND US alan  skeoch Feb. 2021 Ah!  Wonderful!  When we were young and  anxiously awaited the March Break to go camping on the banks of Etobicoke Creek\u2026a wasteland of mysteriously abandoned farms with empty barns and  brick farm houses . […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}